About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Housden offers help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, grief or the impact of trauma and abuse. She presents a calm and accepting presence so clients can talk about hard things without judgement. Elizabeth's style is practical and down-to-earth, aiming to make small steps feel doable rather than overwhelming.
She is a BACP counsellor with 12 years of direct counselling experience and a longer history working in mental health.
Background and approach
Elizabeth uses an integrative way of working, drawing on different techniques to match what each person needs. Sessions move at the client’s pace and focus on immediate concerns as well as longer term patterns.
Elizabeth has worked in schools, specialist services and community settings, and she has experience supporting adults and young people with anxiety, addiction, bereavement, self-harm, low self-esteem and related concerns. She brings professional experience alongside personal lived experience of overcoming difficulties, which informs a warm, empathic approach.
In practical terms she offers a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different routines. People who are worried about panic, feeling empty, attachment struggles or midlife questions often come to explore coping strategies and clearer next steps. Therapy sessions are conversational and collaborative.
Elizabeth helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try new coping strategies and build on what is already working. The aim is more clarity, reduced overwhelm and a steadier way of moving forward.
Approaches that suit online therapy and anxiety
Elizabeth works integratively, combining evidence-based therapeutic techniques to match each person’s needs. One approach focuses on practical coping skills for anxiety and panic - learning breath and grounding techniques, and testing new ways to respond to fear in small steps. This helps reduce immediate overwhelm and makes day-to-day life easier.Another approach concentrates on processing trauma and emotional pain through careful, paced conversation and techniques that help reduce reactivity. This work aims to help people make sense of painful memories and lower intense emotional responses over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Elizabeth will collaborate with each person to decide which techniques to try first, adjusting methods as goals and preferences become clearer. The process is interactive and paced to what feels manageable.
Online therapy here is offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit sessions around work, family or travel. Video helps keep the face-to-face feel, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits quick check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make therapy more flexible and help people keep continuity of care even when their routine changes.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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